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This is a screenshot from the last Stonecrest Development Authority meeting to take place.

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Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., speaks to reporters alongside Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., during a press conference regarding the Democratic party's shift to focus on voting rights at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

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The Atlanta housing market continued to play out the same equation in December: A shortage of homes listed for sale pit potential buyers against each other. The result was another month following the year's pattern of higher prices and fewer homes sold. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Metro Atlanta housing market ends year with higher prices, fewer sales

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Tough-on-crime initiatives that Gov. Brian Kemp announced last week veer away from the policies of his predecessor Nathan Deal, who overhauled the state's criminal justice system with the aim of steering nonviolent offenders away from costly prison beds and largely avoided sweeping new criminal penalties. (Nathan Posner for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Former Senator David Perdue (R-GA) speaks at the Georgia GOP State Convention in Jekyll Island, Georgia on June 5th, 2021. Nathan Posner for the Atlanta-Journal-Constitution

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A portion of the four acres in southeast Decatur that’ll be turned into a development called Hargrove. It appears most of the property’s been cleared of trees despite signs surrounding the site saying “Tree Save Area.” Construction should start on the 59 single-family homes and attached townhomes in early summer and finish by December 2018. Bill Banks for the AJC

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President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. Biden ends his first year in the White House with a clear majority of Americans for the first time disapproving of his handling of the presidency in the face of an unrelenting pandemic and roaring inflation. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announces the launch of a new voter registration system Wednesday as he's surrounded by county election directors in the Georgia Capitol. MARK NIESSE / MARK.NIESSE@AJC.COM

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Georgia U.S. Sen. Richard Russell was known as ‘the filibuster’s best friend’ during the 1950′s and 60′s.

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State lawyers filed their response Wednesday to a lawsuit that former U.S. Sen. David Perdue filed challenging a state law that allows Gov. Brian Kemp and some legislative leaders to raise money during a General Assembly session while most other lawmakers cannot. They said Perdue's “litigation strategy reflects a sandbagging effort to tilt the playing field in his favor.” (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)

Kemp says federal suit aims to put him at a political disadvantage

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Officials from the state Department of Corrections and the state Department of Juvenile Justice told legislators Wednesday that the retention of officers remains a problem even after last year's 10% pay raise. Pay is not the sole problem, they said. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

Despite raises, turnover remains high at Georgia prisons, juvenile centers

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Ron Tripodo, center, yells at the Cherokee County School Board after they passed a resolution to ban teaching critical race theory and then adjourned the meeting Thursday night, May 20, 2021. Tripodo was upset that the language in the resolution was ambiguous and didn’t really do anything. Now, lawmakers and Gov. Brian Kemp say they want to ban the graduate school-level theory in K-12 classrooms. (Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Democrat Charlie Bailey, who lost a close race for attorney general in 2018, recently abandoned his bid for a rematch against Republican Chris Carr to instead run for lieutenant governor. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

‘Backroom deals’ reshape Democratic races in Georgia

10/01/2018 -- Jasper, Georgia -- Georgia Republican Gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp exits his campaign bus during a campaign stop at Appalachian Gun, Pawn &Range in Jasper, Monday, October 1, 2018. Monday was the first day of Brian Kemp's weeklong bus tour where he and his campaign will visit 27 counties in 5 days. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

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Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) arrives at a press conference on preparations for an incoming winter storm on January 14th, 2022 at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia. (Nathan Posner for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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FILE - Stacey Abrams speaks to Biden supporters as they wait for former President Barack Obama to arrive and speak at a campaign rally for Biden at Turner Field in Atlanta, Nov. 2, 2020. A resurgent GOP is poised to reclaim one, if not both, chambers of Congress and retain its lock on dozens of state legislatures and governor’s offices. The turnaround — which is expected but far from assured — is fueled by an unpopular Joe Biden presidency, deep frustration with the lingering pandemic and fresh concerns about inflation, as well as the GOP having history on its side. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

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U.S. Sen. David Perdue speaks during the Republican National Committee's Victory Rally in Valdosta on Dec. 5, 2020. It’s a common theme: Politicians often seek the Lord’s career advice. And then they let folks know that they did. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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